Kneeling for a cause: South High volleyball team
Luciana Rian-Senna, Staff Writer
October 14, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories, Volleyball
At their game against Washburn last month, the South volleyball team took a knee during the national anthem, taking part in what is becoming a national protest, to raise awareness towards the American government supporting and funding the police who have been killing people based on racial prejudices. ...
Mountain bike team backpedals due to conflict with league rules
Tannen Holt, Staff Writer
October 12, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
In their first year of competing as an individual team, the South Mountain Bike Team has come off to a strong start. In the majority of their races, the JV team has placed highly, coming in at least 1st or 2nd. However, the team is caught in between the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) rule...
With different bodies, come different injuries
Luca Raffo-Simoes, Staff Writer
October 11, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
Female bodied athletes are more prone to getting injured in sports, it’s simply anatomy. The way their hips are placed and the greater extent of flexibilities that comes along with getting less body muscle then male bodied people during puberty. Does this affect female bodied people joining sports? ...
Tiger Pride shines through the cold at South High homecoming game
Asanti Bekele, Staff Writer
October 10, 2016
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
Despite the freezing weather and loss at the homecoming game, South tigers continue to keep their spirit. At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, everybody who bought a ticket to the game went to the gym entrance while shoving and pushing each other. From the moment the security guards checked for the orange tick...
With wins and losses, October Super Soccer Saturday was a kick this year
Katherine Lundquist, Staff Writer
October 5, 2016
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
There were 6 soccer games at southwest High School, starting off with women's B squad at 9 a.m. and wrapping up the day with men's varsity at 7 p.m. Even though South’s women's varsity lost 6-1, it was the best they played all season: “We played a lot harder than last Super Soccer Saturday,”...
South high girls swim to the top at the Maroon & Gold Invitational state competition
Soline Van de Moortele, News Editor
September 18, 2016
Filed under News, Sports, Top Stories
Loud cheering and the smell of chlorine filled the aquatics center at the University of Minnesota as high school women's swim teams from across Minnesota compete at one of the biggest meets of the season, a meet that has been done annually since its founding in 1993. South is part of a joint-school team featuri...
South bikers join 24 hour bike race
Livia Lund, Features Editor
August 16, 2016
Filed under Features, Sports, Top Stories
It’s t-minus 90 minutes until the start of the Powderhorn 24, a 24 hour bike race with a 4.8 mile route circling the blocks around Powderhorn park, and it’s raining outside. Hard. Two South juniors, Maxwell Hansen and Ben Meier are eating their pre-race meal at Pineda, a common hang-out sp...
Soccer bridges cultural gap for immigrants
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
May 31, 2016
Filed under Sports
Soccer, or football as it’s known in most countries outside the US, began in 19th century England and has since exploded and become the most popular sport in the world. It is played on every continent (except Antarctica) and it a huge part of many differents countries’ cultures. This diversity of...
Men’s Soccer produces state soccer player
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
May 13, 2016
Filed under Sports
This year senior Hamzard Abdul from the Men’s soccer team was chosen to participate in the Minnesota All-State Soccer Team. This a group of the top men’s and women’s soccer players from each conference in the state. Abdul will represent the men’s city conference. Varsity Coach Patrick Bartel c...
Competition is redefined in Northern Indigenous Games
Emma Pederson, Opinions and Social Media Editor
April 18, 2016
Filed under Sports
If you ever exit the school through the doors by the snack shack, you’ll notice that every Tuesday and Thursday, students and teachers begin to warm up to play the Creator’s game, the traditional version of lacrosse. Or perhaps you see students throughout the day, carrying their lacrosse sticks, some ...
Sports rivalries continue even as participation drops
Eva Shellaberger, Features Editor
April 11, 2016
Filed under Sports
Every few weeks, the rocks outside South change colors-haphazardly painted over with the name of another school, until another South student returns to paint over in black and orange. Supposedly, the rocks were put out in front of the schools so that the building itself would not be vandalized. In effect,...
New badminton coach accepts large crowd, creates “family”
Livia Lund, Staff Writer
April 11, 2016
Filed under Sports, Top Stories
In mid-March, as students and staff walked through Souths doors in the morning and wandered toward the commons they might have noticed a man sitting at a table with a large sign the words “join badminton” proudly written on it. That man was Rodney Lossow, new head coach of the girl’s badminton t...
Hazel McKinney, Staff Writer
December 13, 2018 • No Comments
The Minnesota Whitecaps are breaking barriers in women’s sports. This local hockey team is one of the only professional women's hockey teams in the United States that has...
The ‘Clue’ performance was a play to die for
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Graffiti around South echoes nationwide hate
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South’s ceramics program gives students the opportunities to advance their skills and future careers
December 10, 2018
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